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There once was a man who was fighting a cold.
The fight took place at a famous boxing arena in Las Vegas.
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The rain hammers the windows, an unorthodox pattern on a sad Sunday morning.
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In those moments of irritation it's as if he descends from the heavens and settles into my body, takes a good grip of the steering wheel, and elevates the tension in the car to Code Red.
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You watched their endeavors from the saddle, the way they created four walls with the sheets and towels, an inner sanctum conjured out of their cleverness, within which they pegged bras and underwear for modesty’s sake.
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On their wedding day, the justice of the peace asked the man, “Do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?”
The man just stood there, frozen. He couldn’t decide.
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Mam and I lit candles and prayed to St. Jude for a cessation to the deluge, but the rain kept falling and the flower beds turned to a muddiness I equated with the No Man’s Land morass of World War I.
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The research facility is located at the bottom of a steep and jagged valley, far away from Heaven, and the anguished eye of The Almighty.
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Elvis meant nothing to me.
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There once was a man who never was a boy, or even a baby. He was born a full-grown man.
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She grew tired of waiting for her husband to give her a flower so she picked one for herself.
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Salmon and hake stare wall-eyed from an icy bed.
The Turkish coffee seller makes thick lattes for €2.00
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No one saw him arrive at the half-moon garden just south of Delancey, no one saw him hang his cage from one of the drainage pipes, but by the time the rest of us got there, the bamboo frame was already covered with silky, golden cloth that reflected the e
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St. Brigid’s Crosses go for €7 a shot.
Inside the passage grave the walls are tight.
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